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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

STEPHEN J. LANCASTER, OF PETROLIA, ONTARIO, CANADA.

LINIMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 428,344, dated May 20, 1890. Application filed December 14, I889. Serial No.333,'779. (N0 specimens.) Patented in Canada July 29, 1885, No. 22,142.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN J. LANCASTER, of Petrolia, in the county of Lambton, Province of Ontario, and Dominion of Canada, have invented anew and Improved Liniment for the Treatment of Sciatica and other Diseases, (which was patented in Canada July 29, 1885, No. 22,142,) of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention consists of a new and use ful composition of matter to be used as a liniment for the treatment of sciatica, neuralgia, gout, inflammatory rheumatism, and other diseases of similar origin and nature.

My composition is made up of the following ingredients, combined in about the proportions statedviz: alcohol, one gallon; capsicum, one pound; Princes pine, (pipsissewa,) one pound; camphor-gum, one-half pound; oil of origanum, four ounces; oil of wintengreen, one ounce.

My mode of preparing and mixing the above-named composition is as follows: Thus for each gallon of sixty-five, or thereabout, overproof alcohol, I take one pound of the best quality of capsicum, one pound of dried Princes pine, otherwise known as pipsissewa, one-half pound of camphor-gum, four ounces oil of origanum, and one ounce of oil of winter-green, and mix the whole as follows: I

first put the capisicum and Princes pine into the alcohol and allow the same to remain therein for about forty-eight hours, (more or less,) then filter, and to the liquid thus obtained I add the other aboverna'med ingredi- Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let-- ters Patent, is

The herein-described com-position of matter to be used as a liniment for the treatment of sciatica and other diseases, the same being a tincture -in alcohol of capsicum, Princes pine, otherwise known as pipsissewa, and camphor-gum, with the oils of origanum and winter-green, substantially in the proportions specified.

STEPHEN J. LANCASTER.

Witnesses:

GEO. MONCRIEF, 'lHos. J. ANDERSON.

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